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WEEL-FARRANT, adj. Also -farrand. Of pleasant appearance or demeanour. Cf. Ill-farrant. See Farrant, 1.e.Lth. 1895 Life & Work XVII. 223:
He was as weel set-up, weel-farrant a young lad as ye wad see in a lang simmer's day.s.Sc. 1897 E. Hamilton Outlaws xix.:
You shall swing as high as any, for all you're so big and weel-farrand.
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